Executive Summary

State-run health care insurance companies will be developed to provide coverage to all legal residents of their state. The financing will come from the federal government (including all money currently spent on Medicare and other health care programs), state government (including Medicaid and all other health care spending), businesses (taxes), and individuals (premiums, copays, and taxes). Much of this money can be found in the current system from other Health Care services, which will be unnecessary in the new system, and from individuals' cwrent health care costs. The remaining money will come from increased taxes.

The overall health care costs can be controlled by reducing waste in the current system, limiting medical malpractice, changing the focus of medicine from treatment to prevention, and increasing the use of less expensive providers such as nurse practitioners.

Access will be ensured for everyone through the new health care system, which covers all residents of the state, thereby reducing risk as well. After hours clinics will increase to lessen the number of expensive emergency room visits. Additionally, more primary care providers will be available in the schools.

Quality control will be ensured through computerized medical records and oversight from both a national board and state health care committees.

The transition to the new health care system will be difficult, but with careful planning, can be completed successfully.

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